The red devils - public viewing during the 2010 soccer worldcup at COEX center (click to enlarge picture)

During the soccer world cup 2010 the inhabitants of Seoul gathered at big places in the city to enjoy together the "public viewing" of the Korean's red devil's matches. On both
pictures you see the watching of the match South Korea vs. Paraguay at the rounds of 16. Unfortunately South Korea lost this match with a 0:1 loss to Paraguay. The people of Seoul were
watching with plastic rain capes, sitting cross-legged on the wet street °_°

The red devils watch the Korean match against Paraguay (click to enlarge picture)

McDonalds delivery service (click to enlarge picture)

In Seoul you can order McDonalds-burgers to your apartment by telephone - in Berlin this is not possible. But, the employees of McDonalds are quite unhappy if you make an order by phone.
They grumpily try to sell you as much as possible on the phone, because they say that otherwise they won't come!

Public restroom with best view from N Seoul tower (click to enlarge picture)

In the center of Seoul you see a green hill with a tall tower on it. That's N Seoul Tower. The N means "New" and "Namsan", the park where the tower is placed. Go upstairs to the viewing
platform and enjoy the restrooms with Seoul's best view!

Young couples buy love tiles at the ground floor of N Seoul tower. They write their love message on it and stick it to a wall which is especially made for such love tiles (see the photo
above). The padlocks which you can see on the two photos below have a similar meaning.

At the subway station of Jamsil sports complex park (for example the 1988 Olympic stadium is there) is a parking garage for bicycles. I think the bikes are quite safe there, but given
fact that there is almost no crime scene in Seoul, it's maybe unnecessary. I think, even if you put your bike without any lock somewhere in the street, it'll stand there the next days as well and
nobody will take it away.

The 1988 Olympic sports stadium. In front of the stadium entrance you can see a painting of the 1988 Olympic Games mascot - a cute tiger with the name Hodori (or is it Hosuni?). They had two mascots, one male tiger (Hodori) and one female tiger (Hosuni)

You can find disinfection machines for H1N1 flu everywhere in the city. Just put your hands inside the machine, then a blue blinking light will appear, and your hands are being sprayed
with a disinfection fluid. Many Koreans use those machines quite often.

Because it's very important for Koreans to get married, people like to celebrate the wedding in big beautiful ornamented wedding halls. You find them everywhere in the city. Those two on
the photos were found at a department store's top floor. Stepping out of the wedding hall means standing next to electronic and furniture shops! Of course you can rent such rooms for other
parties as well, for example for the babies' one year birthday.

Everywhere in Seoul you see electric flashlights hanging around. This one I found at the hotel room. It's a sensible idea, nevertheless I can't imagine that there might be a power outage
in such a highly developed city like Seoul. It'll be better to hang up such torches in Greece ^_^

Many toilets ("LooLoos") in Seoul have such an electronic device at the side. The user has the possibility to heaten up the seat, or getting a water fountain shower from below
(like a bidet). When the backside is wet, just use the hot air to dry it!

As soon as you have entered a public bus in Seoul, you should get a hold instantly at one of the iron holding bars inside the bus. The bus drivers behave like rally drivers! They
start the bus jerkily, drive to the left lane, the right lane, and again to the left lane, always changing, like crazy, and suddenly they stop at the next bus stop. You are always happy if you
have survived the bus trip!

"Free interpretation taxi" - Inside the taxi you can call a special person who speaks english, and this person gives orders to the taxi driver in Korean language according to your destination wishes ^_^ (click to enlarge picture)

Unfortunately most people in Seoul don't speak english. According to this the taxi drivers don't speak much english as well. If you enter a taxi, you always should have the
Korean name of your destination with you. On the other hand you can choose a taxi with the "free interpretation" sign on it. Inside you can use a telephone to contact a special english speaking
contact person. Tell this person your destination in english, and she/he will give the taxi driver the destination name in Korean language. Or choose a black taxi. They have an english speaking
driver right from the start, but they are a bit more expensive.

At night there are many illuminated places and buildings in Seoul! On the photo above you see the Banpo bridge. This sprinkles out a colorful lighted water fountain at noon and in the
evening, together with music. The two photos below show the Cheonggyecheon creek, which goes directly through the center of Seoul. At night there are laser shows with music on the walls, and
there is also a lighted waterfall.

Koreans like neon light advertisements...in Germany it would be impossible (click to enlarge picture)

Wheras German citiy governments try to advise the shops and companies to have only discreet conservative advertisements, Seoul is gleaming, flashing and glowing with full
power! Koreans like colorful neon light advertisements very much!

In Seoul the big Korean companies can be found everywhere in the city. Manly it is Samsung, LG and Hyundai. Whereas in Germany LG is only popular for producing TV-flatscreens, they
sell in Korea a much wider variety of products than in Germany. For example, on the picture above you see air conditioning systems made by LG.

The KTX (Korea Train Express) - Koreas high speed train, standing at the Seoul main station and waiting for new passengers to enter and ride with high speed to Busan (click to enlarge picture)

Statue of Buddha at a small park right in the middle of streets, aprtaments and office buildings (click to enlarge picture)

Small christian protestant church (click to enlarge picture)

The christian religion is quite popular in Korea. There are many different catholic or protestant christian communities. Every community has to start with a small budget and can rent only
a few rooms in an office building in the beginning. If the community is getting bigger and collects more money of it's members, it can rent bigger buildings or build really big own
churches.

The church service in Korea is quite similar to the service in Germany. The christian communities have many dedicated members which help during the services. In front of the church you
find people which help the arriving cars to find a parking lot, inside the church some community members help the guests to find toilets (yes, every church has a restroom!) or a free
place to sit. During the service a big chorus is singing the hymns, and the priest is preaching in front of a huge red curtain. There is also a translation service by headphone for the abroad
guests.